Improvement in wire-ways



H. i 5. W. RGERS.

wahre-Ways.

Patented 1115924, NW3..

JAMES H. ROGERS vAND JOHN W. RUGERS, 0F PEEKSKILL, NEW YRK.

Specification forming part of Lettera Patent No. Hil/ldated June 24, 1873; application flied To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES HARRIS ROGERS and JOHN WnrrsoN RoGnns, of Peekskill, in the county of festchestcr and State otf New York, have invented certain Improvements in Wireltope Railways, ot' which the following;` is a specification:

The tirst part of our invention relates to a` combination ot' wheels and pulleys so arranged, in connection with rods and a wire, that, buckets or cars appended to them may be lowered from au elevation at any angle with the horizon until they reach a given point, and `then may be dropped perpendicularly to any required point. Theymay then be elevated by a motoren the elevation, first,

l perpendieularly to the, wireL and then drawn up by the motor, to which a rope joins them. The second part ot' our invention relates to a combination ot' parts-by which the buckets or cars may pass' by supports for the wires, i. e., to a short railway lixed at each support.; and to wheels, by means of which the supports maybe passed without collision with the pendeilt cars or buckets. Bothv parts of the invention are useful for transporting.;l water, ores, merchandise, &c.

Figure l is the wire railway with bucket or car moving on the wire; Fig'. 2, the saine with bucket or car dropping to the object to be moved. Fig. 3 is a front view oi wheels or blocks tobe used when supports for long` wires must be passed by the buckets or cars.

When the device descends, as in Fig. 1, the rod ll is disengagedfrom the pulley l) by the action ot' rod l" as soon as the pulley Vli in i'ront strikes crossvbar Ir, and, ot' course, thc rnd thusdisengaged descends with its bucket er cur tow-ard the object to be moved; and the bucket, leaving the rod, descends on the rope l to the object. lhe rope being 'now drawn by the motor, the bucket or cur would naturally drag' ou the ground; but the hookend oi' rod lil having necessarily caught on cross-bar k as the opposite end descended, the hook retains its hold on cross-bar k until, the bucket or car ascending shall have reached tho rod. E, and then, by its gravity descending to the other end ot' rod E, disengages by its weight the hook from the cross-bar and ascends to the motor. fWhile single wheels or pulieys would be suiicient for wires having no supports, yet it is evident that they could not pass by snpports; hence bar U being' a support for the wire. N N is ashort railway adjacent toit, ou which the two outer wheels ot B revolve; and these being,` a trilie larger than the middle wheel the wire will he relieved of the weight ot" the buckets while passing the supports, and the opening M permits the parts which form it to pass with their pendentiburden.

The advantages claimed are that this conibination (comprising thetirst part et' onrlin; Ventron) permits the ear to descend at any angle to a given point, and then dropping it automatically, to be filled with water, ores, merchandise, Sac., raises it again tofthe motor without dragging, which we consider a desid eratum, especially' where bllii'is,higl1ways, dac., intervene between the motor and the objects to be moved.

'lhe second part oi our invention permits the buckets or cars to pass supports for the wires without cia-xuplpulleys or hinge-pulleys` now in use with dili'erent combinations.

We do not claim the combination silnpiy et pulleys, rope., and wire l'or transportation; but` We claim- 1; The combination of pulleys l t) l) with the rods ll and F and the cross-bar K, all to be used by means of the rope l and the wires, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

2. The combination ot' track N N with block B and opening M, substantially as and for the purposes herein described and set t'orth.

- JAMES HARRIS RGGERS.

JOHN WHITSUN ROGERS.

Attest:

(JonNELI/i ANN Emmi ROGERS,

Sil/inns Wenn ROGERS. 

